Without at least 2 or 3 DNFs from Vettel, he'll walk away with another WDC. It's just a boring season, which is unfortunate because the 2nd-4th fight is very very tight.

I think what's most upsetting while Vettel is a good driver, it's clearly his car that is the deciding factor. All the other world champ drivers are all pretty close, yet Newey's wonderboy is walking away with more and more points every round. Both the Red Bulls do exceptionally well most of the time (as long as Mark gets a decent start).

At this point I'm just looking forward to 2014 and hoping the cars will actually be close in performance, instead of one clear dominant car.

Good to see Alonso put up a good fight today even though Vettel took the podium. Lol at Vettel getting booed.

Vettel could DNF the next two races with Alonso coming in first and still be ahead in the WDC by 3 points. I'm not even looking forward to watching the next races if they're going to be another Vettel snooze fest. At this point he'll probably lock up WDC in the next race or two.

It's not that I hate Vettel for winning so much, it's that I hate him for being able to do it without really trying. He's consistently had the best and fastest car on the grid for four years, he has possibly the best designer in modern F1, he has a hugely wealthy team backing, and the entire team is focused on him while his teammate gets leftover scraps. The car is simply a rocket ship that isn't touched by ANY other car on the grid. All the while, Alonso is working his mule of a Ferrari, driving the balls off it just trying to match Vettel's casual Red Bull pace.

It'd be nice to see Vettel have to actually fight through an even playing field instead walking away on opening lap uncontested.

Remember the 1st half of '12 when the RB wasn't the Belle of the Ball--Seb had some serious trouble winning, didn't he? It made for TREMENDOUS competition & racing.

We need that kind of action back--hopefully the wholesale changes for '14 will bring that... This Newey parade is like the Ferrari/Schumi parade of the late 90s/early 00s--BORING.

I concur with the exception that I liked watching MS win and I liked the people at Team Ferrari during that era as well. Also don't forget that before the "snooze-fest" that was the MS era, it first began with MS putting on one hell of a show at Benetton and then his first few years at Ferrari. He really displayed some incredible talent and overcame some incredible odds before the domination set in.

We didn't get that benefit from Vettel. He had 1 good race in a season with STR then hopped on board with RBR and the snoozefest began. No fore-play, no kissing, not even a pinch and tickle... Just straight to it. As a fan, Vettel leaves me unsatisfied.




I feel like this post got a little weird.

Vettel is boring to watch because he's never really done anything amazing. He starts on the front row and sails away into the distance. When he gets caught up with other cars (like in Hungary this year) he struggles to get past them. The only time he actually DID move up the field was Abu Dhabi last year, where he took a penalty to start from pit lane so he could tweak his aero and other settings to be more suitable for passing while everyone else is running their quali setups. Let's not forget the safety cars that helped him bunch the cars up too....

Vettel just isn't exciting to watch at all. It's like watching a cold, emotionless robot drive Adrian Newey's engineering. There's no firey passion like you see from Alonso or quirky character like you see from Kimi or likable enthusiasm like you see from Hamilton. Heck even Webber has tons of character and is pretty likable. Shame he gets Vettel's leftovers from the team.

Gonna be the team rivalry of team rivalries--EPIC...

I'm the #1, no I'M the #1, NO, I'M THE # 1!......... lol

Sensational news. So much for media speculation that Kimi wouldn't return since it would be an admission by Luca di Montezemolo that he was wrong to let him go in the first place.

I imagine tifosi worldwide, like me, are celebrating.

This more than compensates for having to listen to the neutered bleat of a V-6 next year.

Still, I feel badly for Massa. He wasn't the same after losing the driver's championship on the last lap in Brazil and then his nearly career ending injury. Maybe they can find a seat for him on the sports car side.

It will be VERRRYY interesting to see Kimi and Alonso together in their fight against Vettel!

If Ferrari doesn't get their act together mechanically and Newey makes another space ship, it will be another season of Vettel out in front with everyone else fighting for table scraps and in no real contention. Red Bull's wonderboy will go completely uncontested by his new junior teammate, but I wonder how Ferrari team orders will play out when they realize they'll be taking points away from eachother for WDC.... Or maybe they won't care because they'll actually do very well for WCC....?

Without a few DNF's from Vettel, this snooze-fest of a season is more or less done. Hopefully 2014 will have some actual competition.

Massa will be on the grid next year. Lotus will pick him up if they dont grab Hulkenburg. And if they do then Sauber will take Massa. Thats my lil prediction anyway.

After FP2 at Singapore, it looks like F1: The Vettel Show is on fast track to keep being as boring as 2011.

I hope he crashes Sunday.

The engines should throw everyone off balance for at lest the first few races, god the first half of 2012 was amazing. I want that again, but for a whole season.

Would not have guessed Kimi back to Ferrari, would have thought staying at Lotus, going to Red Bull or Mclaren before that. Though with the engine reg changes it's the safest bet during a transition series considering none of the other engine manufacturers are "true" works teams.

I expect Ferrari and Mercedes to start off as the quick teams next year and *maybe* RBR.

The reason for F and Merc is that they are ALL in-house. They develop the chassis/engine/trans all in house. There's some engineering advantage to that. But then again, Adrian Newey is after all, Adrian Newey.